LLED 478A: Introduction to Teaching English as a Second Language

LLED 478A aims to apply linguistic insights to effective lesson/unit planning in teaching English as a second/foreign language. Students will:

Demonstrate knowledge of phonology, syntax, meaning, and discourse in their application to the ESL classroom;
Demonstrate a range of techniques related to the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing which promote language learning;
Promote communicative competence by contextualizing teaching points;
Prepare lesson and unit plans for a particular class that will show focus, variety, integration, expansion and balance;
Relate the main current methods of language teaching to their underlying assumptions and to instructional choices;